Navaho

[ nav-uh-hoh, nah-vuh- ]

/ ˈnæv əˌhoʊ, ˈnɑ və- /

noun, plural Nav·a·hos, Nav·a·hoes, (especially collectively) Nav·a·ho, adjective

Navajo.

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Navajo

or Nav·a·ho

[ nav-uh-hoh, nah-vuh- ]

/ ˈnæv əˌhoʊ, ˈnɑ və- /

noun, plural Nav·a·jos, Nav·a·joes, (especially collectively) Nav·a·jo for 1.

a member of the principal tribe of the southern division of the Athabaskan stock of North American Indians, located in New Mexico and Arizona, and now constituting the largest tribal group in the U.S.

the Athabaskan language of the Navajo.

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of the Navajo, their language, or their culture: a Navajo blanket.

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Example sentences from the Web for navaho

Perhaps the Navaho and Apaches never had totemic names for their exogamous local groups.
Method in the Study of Totemism|Andrew Lang
In some of the cliff-houses of the Navaho Monument sills and floor levels are continuous.
Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace|Jesse Walter Fewkes
The Navaho portions of later pamphlets in this bi-lingual series are the joint work of Harrington and Young.
Little Man's Family|J. B. Enochs
Slade paused to bellow guttural commands at a Navaho sheepherder who was driving a small flock down the valley.
Bloom of Cactus|Robert Ames Bennet

Carmena was already lowering Lennon's outfit to the trader's Navaho followers, who had come at dawn.
Bloom of Cactus|Robert Ames Bennet

British Dictionary definitions for navaho

Navaho

Navajo

/ (ˈnævəˌhəʊ, ˈnɑː-) /

noun

plural -ho, -hos, -hoes, -jo, -jos or -joes a member of a North American Indian people of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah

the language of this people, belonging to the Athapascan group of the Na-Dene phylum

Word Origin for Navaho

C18: from Spanish Navajó pueblo, from Tena Navahu large planted field

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